1.) "LORD, please bless this food to our bodies" - These are in no particular order, but if they were, this one would have to be near the top of the list. So we are driving home, and we don't really feel like cooking today. We could go get something healthy at a wrap or pita place and load up the veggies with some wholesome meat, but instead we get a greasy burger (not bad by itself) and instead of adding veggies to it, we load it up with cheese and bacon, an extra-extra-LARGE sodacrack, and these things that may or may not have been potatoes once upon a time when someone's great-grandma was a small child.
Instead, what if we treated our bodies like the Temple of the Holy Spirit? What if instead we maybe paid a little more money (if we are going to eat out anyway) and got say a large salad with some shredded steak on it? This way you have your veggies, your protein, and the fat that your body does indeed actually need. (A lot of what's been said about fat in the past is now being reversed.)
Personally, I am way overweight, and I need this. With all of the contradictory information out there, I am trying to seek out a more Biblically-oriented diet. I have been buying more vegetables, but have also been cooking them in a bit of coconut oil etc., along with some animal protein. While I am free as a New Testament Christian to eat things like pork, I have also chosen to de-ephasize this particular animal in my diet, noting that a lot of what is in the Bible in the dietary Levitial laws is directly related to scientific principles of hygiene that were only discovered in recent centuries by modern science.
See my video: Scientific Foreknowledge in The Bible part 1
2.) "It's natural!" (So it must be good for you) - Put the weed down Erik! In Genesis we read that God created the World "very good." But if we read just a little bit later, we see this relatively unknown and minor event called The Fall. (This is one of those things that many Christians dismiss as a "divisive side issue" because they say The Fall, and the entrance of Sin into the World has nothing to do with the Gospel.) In a nutshell, all of Creation hit the fan, because Adam, the first man, decided to sin against God when he was tempted by the Devil who apparently was in league with the progenitor snake. Thorns and thistles began to grow, creatures began to become violent with one another, work became hard for man, and labor became hard for woman. The Creation became cursed, but God promised Eve, the first woman, that he would send a Messiah through the womb of woman to save humanity from this Sin-cursed and Fallen state. (But of course, we are assured in Christian circles, none of this has anything to do with the Gospel, so just stick to Jesus - not anything He actually said or taught, especially about Creation, Sin or Redemption, just stick to the fact that He was/is nice.)
When it comes to "natural" foods, our world is broken. Not every plant is edible to us anymore, even though this seems to have been the case in the earliest parts of Genesis, before the Fall. Some things will kill you instantly if you eat or touch them, while others will be harmful to your health.
I read a book about nuclear energy not long ago that talked about a "natural" mineral water that was once on the shelf. People were drinking this stuff down by the caseload, because the minerals were found to kill tumors... but what people didn't know at the time was that these minerals were radioactive - because they did not understand what this "natural" property of radioactivity was.
Keep in mind, that not every "natural" thing was created by God for our ingestion. Consider uranium - a wonderful miracle in terms of it's ability to create energy safely and effectively, when used by competent individuals, with very very little waste. Yet this material is not something we should be eating.
3.) Don't Judge His Salvation! / You Can Never Know Another Person's Heart
Alright, I am going to be honest. I really don't know entirely where the Bible lines up on this one. Yet I see in the New Testament where John the Baptist called a group of Pharisees a "brood of vipers" (Matthew 12:34), and I also see where the Apostles called people "wolves in sheep's clothing" and said that certain men were "false brothers." Jesus also said that we are to judge men by their fruit - do they grow figs, or do they grow thorns?
On the other hand, it has been pointed out that both Old Testament and New Testament saints screwed up big time.
That said, we need to stop embracing every person who calls themselves a "Christian," because this is doing way too much damage within the Church. God may or may not reveal the "heart" of another person to us, as He did with the apostles being offered money by Simon the Sorcerer (Acts 8), but God has given us minds and wisdom. As a former biology professor of mine, who was not a Christian, said "God gave you a brain, and expects you to use it." (I honestly do not remember her exact words, but the point still stands, and she was right.)
What then was Peter's response?
18 Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, 19 saying, “Give this authority to me as well, so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” 20 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! 21 You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God. 22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray the Lord that, if possible, the intention of your heart may be forgiven you. 23 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.” 24 But Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.” Acts 8:18-24
Here the Apostle Peter was able to judge the heart of another man as being full of wickedness.
Even if God does not supernaturally reveal someone's heart to us so as to have a Spiritual discernment, we still need to have the discernment of wisdom, and we need to have basic rationality and common sense. At some point, if the fruit of someone's life is consistently bringing forth evil, then we may need to recognize that this person is not walking with the LORD. Some of them may be "saved" and they may be in a season of rebellion against God, for whatever reason. But the word "Christian" means "Follower of Christ" and this means that if someone is not following Christ, then they are not a Christian.
Interestingly, when you say someone is not a Christian, there will be plenty of people there who will be quick to accuse you of judging someone's salvation. There will even be those asking how dare you judge someone's heart, even when so called "Christians" are committing unspeakable evil. Yet in Christian circles, no one bats an eye if anyone says someone is a "good Christian" - because they are looking at the fruit in their life. When we look at the example of the late Billy Graham, we recognize and openly say that this man was a good Christian, and that he is now at home with the LORD - which is to say we are judging his heart and his salvation - and we are doing so based on the good fruit that God worked out in his life.
Let us not therefore be hypocrites, judging the salvation and the hearts of those who are abundantly bringing forth good fruit, while ignoring the evil fruit of those who are calling themselves Christians, but are walking around like a spiritual corpse.
4.) I feel that the moon is made of cheese, so it must be true. - Okay, to be fair, I doubt anyone actually "feels" that the moon is made of cheese, but far too often Christians base their epistemology on their feelings, rather than based on the Word of God, evidence, and logic. The problem is that "feeling" something to be true has no bearing on reality. Whether or not one "feels" vaccines, or Harry Potter, or Pokemon, to be bad has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not these things are good or bad.
As Ben Shapiro says, "Facts don't care about your feelings."
Furthermore, the Bible says repeatedly that we are not to be lead by our hearts, and that the heart is deceptively wicked. While culture may tell us to follow our hearts, the Bible tells us that our hearts are evil.
As an example, someone can say "Well I feel that the Earth is flat." ...Okay ..... The facts show us that the Earth is round. (And interestingly, the Bible teaches that the Earth is round, and that the Earth is suspended on nothing - As always, the Bible got it's science right!)
Furthermore, people in the Middle Ages knew that the Earth was round. Everyone who had any sort of higher education knew that the Earth was round. The whole idea that the Church taught that the Earth was flat is an urban myth, and comes from a fictional story made up in the 19th Century by a lawyer who was angry at the Church for not accepting Darwinism.
There is only one qualifier I will put here. Sometimes we can sense that another person is a dangerous person, etc. - And that is something we should listen to. But that is different from saying something like "I feel vaccines are bad." based on emotion, instead of based on evidence.
Jacob Brunton from For The New Christian Intellectual explains more: